#Lisa O'Neill

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Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill perform "Fairytale of New York" at the close of the funeral of Shane MacGowan, the 8th of December 2023.

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Fairytale of New York

Glen Hansard, Lisa O'Neill, & The Pogues: Fairytale of New York

an old man said to me, won't see another one and then he sang a song

Glen Hansard, Lisa O'Neill, and The Pogues performed "Fairytale of New York" at Shane MacGowan's funeral.

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Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill perform Fairytale of New York at Shane MacGowan’s funeral in Nenagh

and Nick Cave performing A Rainy Night in Soho

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Feathered friend, dig up and resurrect me I long to live among the song of birdies A lawless league of lonesome, lonesome beauty Skies and skies and skies above duty

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Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill perform "Fairytale of New York" at Shane MacGowan's funeral

[denimbex1986]

"I'm good Lauren, how are you?"

"Great, yeah - a couple of tracks."

"Yeah, yeah, 20 years now. yeah, yeah."

"It's just Chris, really. This is the way he works; you don't get any warning, there's no preamble, he just calls you out of the blue and he - and so he called me out of the blue, I didn't know what it was, and he said: "I'm making a movie about Oppenheimer and I'd like you to play Oppenheimer." You get a couple of those calls, if you're lucky, in your career and so you, you have to sit down and you get a bit overwhelmed, and it's a tremendous and pleasant shock - and then you just start working. Because there's; it was a huge part and he's such a huge, iconic, you know, divisive character, and we all live - whether we like it or not - in, in Oppenheimer's world because of what happened in 45. So yeah; I had six months to, to work on it, before we started shooting."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's complete - like he's so ambiguous, so enigmatic, so complex as you say, and - but they're to me, always the most intriguing characters to, to play - yes, and, and morally, very, very hard to pin down, you know?"

"Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Well like I said I did an awful lot of reading and there is quite a bit of archival footage of him out there which I, which I was studying as well. And then you use the script and I leaned very closely on Chris obviously, because he's written it. But I, I did for this character, go a bit from the outside in as well, kind of on a parallel track as the, as the reading, so you know, studying his walk and his voice and I had to get this very particular physique for him because he had this very iconic silhouette you know; with the, with the hat and the pipe and - it was we -weird actually. Chris sent me a few David Bowie pictures as references for him, you know - yes, and even that Young Americans era; you know that like inc - yeah, incredibly skinny and that amazing tailoring, and so yeah, we spent a lot of time on that, and that helps because when you're a certain shape, it changes how you walk and, you know, how the clothes fit, and so there, there was manifold research."

"I mean it, it always should be fun really, because that's all we do - is put on voices and get - do dress-up really, but it, it can get very serious when you think about the themes that we're sort of wrestling with here, you know? They're the biggest themes of all you know; life and death, war, politics, science - so you try to have some sort of levity on set in between the big, the big stuff. And, you know, the cast is just astonishing in this film; and luckily Emily Blunt who plays my wife, she's a good pal, we worked together before, and she's brilliant at, at keeping it light as well. So yeah, you have fun, but you are aware of, of the kind of seriousness of what you're portraying."

"Great, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Amazing you know and that - I don't wanna give too much of the movie away because it's not out yet but - but there's a very distinct kind of competitive dy - dynamic between Strauss and Oppenheimer which kind of informs the whole, the whole, the whole film. And, you know, working opposite Downey I mean, he's just extraordinary; he's, he's - he's electrifying to act opposite and he's electrifying in the movie; and he's the most present, available, generous, brilliantly unpredictable actor you could, you could work with. All of them, I mean, every day you'd check the call sheet and say: "Oh my God, look, like Ken Branagh's in tomorrow, and Gary Oldman's in tomorrow", so for me, it's just a dream. That's - that's; what any actor would want; to work with people of that level."

"So I'm keeping it Irish. So I'm gonna play some Lisa O'Neill, who is this - you guys know Lisa, she's, she's an extraordinary singer-songwriter, and we got her to do a version of "All the Tired Horses" on, on Peaky; it was the last piece of music ever played on Peaky. And she just gave this stunning version of the song, and this is from her new album, or the most recent album, and it's called "Old Note" - and it's very beautiful, very emotional."

"Isn't it? It gets me every time. I believe that's her little niece, yeah; she recorded it on her phone, yeah."

"Well music is like a constant companion to me, I'm - I'm obsessed with it. You know, you know, it's what I wanted to do originally, it didn't wor - it didn't work out. And I know I get great - and it just keeps me feeling calm and, or excited or whatever; you know the way mu - music can change your, change your mood. And - and that's why I loved being on this place because you could; it was like sharing music with people and getting the response from it; and I've discovered some of the best music from you guys over the years so it's nice to come on and, you know, do the same."

"I'd love to, I'd love to. Yeah, a little bit."

"Unbelievable, yeah, yeah. Yes, I saw it at the end. Ludwig Göransson did the score - amazing score. Chris is always very experimental I think with, with his music, and things like if you think back to, to Dunkirk and the ticking clock which just propelled the whole movie. And also sound design as you say, knowing when music is important and when it's not important or the power of silence. Exactly, yeah, yeah. So he's just - he's kind of the perfect director Chris. Like, I've been saying this recently because, you know, he's an extraordinary writer, he's an amazing actor director, he, he presents his films like no-one else in the world, in this huge IMAX 70mm format; and then he's amazing with music, so he has every, every facet you'd want in a director."

"Yeah. Yeah. So this is weird; this is my second time playing a physicist so I must have like resting physicist face or something. But I really genuinely don't, you know - it's not my role or job or duty to kind of figure out the science because, you're, you're never going to; there's a tiny percentage of people on the planet that can act - they dedicate their, their lives to it. But for me, what was interesting is to see what that knowledge does to your perspective on the world and that was my kind of my job with Oppenheimer. And, and it was very, very interesting to explore that."

"Yeah. Yes, yeah. Yes, and he was quite naive in many ways. And you know I think; I do believe that he thought aft - you know, that, that this weapon would be the weapon to end all wars and that, that there would be a world governance that would control you know nuclear pro - proliferation; and now we know where we are today."

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. A little bit. You know, but if you, you, you can't sort of think about it too much because then it; you lose a sort of freedom or a sort of presence in the scene. You know, and there was a lot of that in this movie, like, even though all this stuff around the Trinity test - you know we were aware of what we were portraying and how that's changed the world and, and it changed history. It, we've, you know, we all live in, in that age, so you can't let it weigh on you too heavily. We didn't talk about the specifics of it too much, you're more focusing on the truth of the scene between the two actors."

"Pleasure. Love to, love to. Thanks guys."

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

A bittersweet one today - at Shane MacGowan's funeral, Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill performed Fairytale of New York.

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The Blackbird and The Lionheart

Red Right Hand - Peaky Blinders Theme; Flood Remix by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Ballad Of Polly Gray - From “Peaky Blinders” The Orginal Soundtrack/Series 4 by Antony Genn & Martin Slattery 

Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ by Nancy Sinatra

The Chain - 2004 Remaster by Fleetwood Mac

King and Lionheart by Of Monsters and Men 

King Of My Heart by Taylor Swift

Summer Wine - Single Edit by Ville Valo & Natalia Avelon

Why by Annie Lennox

What He Wrote by Laura Marling

I Am by Jamie Bower

King by Florence + The Machine

Blackbird by Lisa O’Neill

Blackbird/Yesterday by The Beatles

Pointless - Strings Acoustic by Lewis Capaldi

Next To Me by Imagine Dragons

Polly Talks To The Spirits - Season 4 Peaky Blinders Soundtrack by Antony Genn & Martin Slattery

Young And Beautiful by Lana Del Rey

Enemy (with JID) - from the series Arcane League of Legends by Imagine Dragons, JID, Arcane, & League of Legends

 Never Tear Us Apart by Paloma Faith

Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac

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Top Albums 2023

Le traditionnel top albums, mes vingt disques préférés de l'an dernier par ordre de sortie (avec un petit rattrapage 2022 pour Cruel Country arrivé au format physique au début de l'année suivante).

Un extrait en écoute dans les playlists suivantes:

Wilco - Cruel Country

The Coral Sea - Golden Planet Sky

H-Burns - Sunset Park

The Waeve - The Waeve

Lisa O'Neill - All of this is chance

Anna B Savage - inFLUX

Lankum - False Lankum

Boygenius - the record

The Tallest Man On Earth - Henry St.

Lael Neale - Star Eaters Delight

The National - First two pages of Frankenstein

Anna St. Louis - In the air

Joanna Sternberg - I've got me

Blur - The ballad of Darren

The Coral - Sea of Mirrors

The Coral - Holy Joe's Coral Island Medecine Show

Wilco - Cousin

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

The Mountain Goats - Jenny from Thebes

Beirut - Hadsel

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-Lisa O'Neill, "All of This is Chance"

[leguin]

in another world, love there’s a better word for us i’ll dance from the grave

[thehappywun]

About the time that their second album "Sing-Sing and I was released" back in 2005. Converted from Realmedia format so as to be made more widely available for those with an interest in this project. Lisa had contributed to producer Mark Van Hoen's Locust, but aside from this and her work with Emma Anderson, seems not to be actively playing or performing after the band dissolved in 2007. I was lucky to catch them live once at Bottom Of The Hill in SF, back in 2002, it was a good show as I recall. Discogs for Lisa, didn't bothering detailing her bandmate as she's far more widely known: https://www.discogs.com/artist/477549-Lisa-ONeill

[countrymusicandcher]

The Pogues and John Sheahan from The Dubliners accompanied by Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill sing "Fairytale of New York" at Shane MacGowan's funeral.